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vital plant and animal populations and providing open space
for nature lovers from around the
world. Dilley's tremendous success is widely considered one of
the most important and inspiring
examples of grassroots conservation in state history.
The State Marine
Reserve and Marine
Mammal Center
COURTESY TOM LAMB
To understand environmentalism in Laguna Beach, you
have to look back to the 1960s.
Bookstore owner James Dilley
saw the common trend in Orange
County-developing every inch of
open land-and wanted to stop it.
By 1968, Dilley had founded the
Laguna Greenbelt Inc., a nonprofit
focused on preserving land in the
canyon and the surrounding hillsides. This came at a time when
Orange County was being rapidly
developed and Dilley himself had
to admit that sequestering 10,000
acres of open space sounded bold.
In various interviews, he called the
quest "quixotic."
Still, Laguna Greenbelt Inc.
spread its vision and rallied support. By 1975, the California Coastal
Plan was behind the idea. The next
decade would see significant land
purchases added to the greenbelt-
including Sycamore Hills (now
called the James Dilley Preserve)
and Crystal Cove State Park.
All this work would come under
threat in 1989, nearly 10 years after
Dilley's death, with plans in place
for 3,200 new homes in Laguna
Canyon. In true Laguna Beach
fashion, the resistance movement
relied on art and peaceful protest
to fight the development. "The
Tell" was a collaborative photo collage created in the Sycamore Hills
area of Laguna Coast Wilderness
Park by artists Jerry Burchfield and
Mark Chamberlain that reflected
concerns about the preservation
of Laguna Canyon, and the everyday lives of its contributors. At its
height, "The Tell," which borrowed
its name from an archaeological
term for a mound of artifacts left
over from previous civilizations
and buried by natural elements,
stretched 636 feet long and more
than 30 feet high. It was covered
with about 100,000 photographs
of people, places, pets, homes
and trips, donated by people from
across the country.
Local and national media
outlets closely covered the building of the photomural. In a Los
Angeles Times piece published in
August 1989, Cathy Curtis called
it a "peculiarly modern kind of
folk art-quilting bee, barn-raising
and hell-raising all in one." She
concluded, "It's a town meeting
disguised as a work of art."
On Nov. 11, 1989, roughly 8,000
people walked from downtown
Laguna Beach to the site of the
photomural in the march to save
Laguna Canyon. At "The Tell,"
some 10,000 protesters made
the trek from the Festival of Arts
grounds to Sycamore Hills to hold
a rally. Signs, chants and speeches
about the effects of unchecked
development helped create a
groundswell of support across
Southern California.
The protests and media coverage caught the attention of the
Irvine Co., which eventually agreed
to release the land to the city of
Laguna Beach. In 1990, residents
voted to tax themselves to help
pay for the purchase of the land
and keep it as preserved, open
space. That same year, the Laguna
Canyon Foundation was created in
a cooperative effort between various conservation groups, the city
and the Irvine Co. It remains the
most important voice in preserving
the Laguna Canyon.
Today, the Laguna Greenbelt is
roughly 7,000 acres-protecting
COURTESY OF VISIT LAGUNA BEACH
The GreenBelt
If you decide to go for a snorkel
in Laguna Beach, you'll discover
that you have an enormous range
of choices. From north to south
you'll find scores of rock outcroppings-Shaw's Cove being one
"must visit" highlight-covered
in kelp and teeming with wildlife. If your last Laguna visit was
before 2009, you'll also surely
notice more of everything. You'll
see more garibaldi, more spiny
lobsters (most often spotted at
night), more kelp bass and more
marine mammal activity.
The increase in size and frequency of fish and mammal sightings is no doubt due to the efficacy
of the Orange County Giant Kelp
Restoration Project of 2009 and
the creation of the Laguna Beach
State Marine Reserve and Laguna
Beach State Marine Conservation
Area in 2012.
Together, the marine reserve
and conservation area combine to
create one of the largest coastal
"no take" zones in Southern
California. Like the Laguna
Greenbelt, these protected
spaces were created through the
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